Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States.
Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.
Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit vestwell.com
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Vestwell is expanding and we’re excited about adding a Plan Design Consultant to our Retirement Services team who is passionate about our mission to change the retirement FinTech space. At a high level, we’re looking for a dedicated consultant to support our Sales and Plan Design teams in plan design illustrations and consultation, as well as manage the transition for incoming plans through implementation. Ideally, you have spent over 8 years working with sponsors, recordkeepers and/or TPAs and have dedicated some time servicing the plan design, compliance and plan document sides of 401(k) plan servicing.
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
As a Plan Design Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our Sales and Plan Design teams. Your responsibilities will include plan design consultations, plan design reviews, drafting plan documents aligned with Vestwell platform capabilities, and ensuring a seamless transition from Plan Design to Implementation for incoming clients.
Day-To-Day, You Will Also Be Expected To:
- Plan Design Consultation - Collaborate with Plan Sponsors to create optimal defined contribution plan designs, addressing queries, and ensuring a clear understanding of chosen plan specifications.
- Illustration support - Provide swift and detailed plan analysis, including profit sharing and safe harbor design comparisons, offering commentary to support recommendations.
- Plan document review - Support sales in conversion contract considerations by performing a plan spec review against supported and outsourced design models; capture plan design conversations and decisions from presale, sale, and onboarding processes to create new plan documents
- Subject matter expertise - Support team members with process reviews, research, and documentation related to plan design, plan proposals and onboarding.
- Project management - Ensure a smooth transfer of incoming plans from Sales to Implementations.
- Plan document creation - Perform plan restatement evaluations, including prior plan document to restated plan document mid-year change assessments, protected benefit analysis, and alignment with Vestwell platform requirements.
- On-call support - Provide live support for team members, clients, and advisors to discuss plan design suggestions or required changes.
- Product support - Contribute to discussions with product and engineering teams to continually iterate on our technology supported design & onboarding processes.
The Necessities:
- Strong commitment to delivering superior service.
- Considerable background in defined contribution/qualified plan experience including sales support, design consultation, document drafting, and non-discrimination testing.
- Thorough understanding of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Department of Labor (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations
- Keen attention to detail, deadlines, and customer service needs.
- Collaborative approach with internal stakeholders and with clients to clearly communicate the process, timing, and plan design considerations of new and restated plans.
- Strong commitment to proactively managing workload.
- Positive, collaborative, and proactive attitude.
- Proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Office suite; Google Workspace; cloud-based client portals and internal network drives.
The Extras:
- Knowledge of one or more non-discrimination testing systems (Ft William, Datair, ASC, Sungard Relius)
- Knowledge of one or more plan document drafting systems (e.g., FT William, Datair, ASC, Sungard Relius)
- Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA) or higher credential from ASPPA
This role will be based in New York City, King of Prussia, Phoenix, or Austin office, and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation.
The expected base salary range for this position is $75K - $85K. This position is eligible to participate in the Company Bonus Pool and is eligible to receive new hire equity in the Company. Please note that salary bands are based on NY and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.
OUR BENEFITS
We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in midtown Manhattan so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. We provide our team with all the equipment they need (plus a few perks!) to work effectively remotely. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!
OUR PROCESS
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 - 2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.
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What We Do
Vestwell is the engine powering modern-day workplace savings and investing programs, such as 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Leading financial institutions, state governments, and embedded financial affiliate groups can seamlessly utilize Vestwell’s innovative and scalable platform to provide flexible, cost-effective, and user-friendly workplace savings programs to their small business clients and individual savers.
Vestwell is at the forefront of change in the $33T+ workplace savings industry. Through our platform and industry partners, we are on a mission to democratize access to savings programs for the 30M+ small businesses across the country.
Why Work With Us
Vestwell has backing from leading fintech and strategic investors and a growing team of superstar professionals. Our mission is to provide a unified workplace savings platform, while closing the savings gap across the country. It's a massive, complex challenge to solve, and we have an incredible team to do it.
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